We love Branson. The people and the history in this town are the reasons we moved here. We would like to list some resources and credits that made this page possible.

Ghost Tour Credits:

The ghost tour had many oral additions. Some stories were simply passed along and never written down. It did make parts of this more fun and more difficult as a few people contradicted each other.

Please visit the Branson Centennial Museum.

http://wrvhs.org/locations/bcm/

http://www.theozarktraveler.com/

https://creaghefamilyhistoricalsociety.com/first-national-bank-robbery/

https://www.bransontrilakesnews.com/

https://thelibrary.org/

Branson Hauntings by Lee Prosser

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/

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Bald Knobber credits:

https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/V33/N1/f93e.html

https://missouriencyclopedia.org/people/kinney-nathaniel-n

https://ozarkshistory.blogspot.com/2015/05/nat-maggie-kinney-true-grit.html

https://missouriencyclopedia.org/people/kinney-nathaniel-n&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/?dl=item&q=springfield,+MO+1882

https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2011041390&searchType=1&permalink=y

https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/bittersweet/su79e.htm

https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4883&context=gradschool_dissertations

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~moccl/Places/ccfeature.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Knobbers

https://missouriencyclopedia.org/people/kinney-nathaniel-n

https://www.kshs.org/km/facets/view/page:3/facets:1122,4904,2685/sidebar:1

https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/V33/N1/f93e.html#:~:text=strikes%20during%201878%20Kinney%20joined,railroad%20strikes%20in%20American%20history.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1888-12-30/ed-1/?sp=7&st=text

https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/V6/N2/W77b.htm

https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/v9/n3/sp86g.htm

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12880247/nathaniel-n-kinney/photo

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-baldknobber/

https://www.ksmu.org/news/2023-03-09/lawlessness-how-the-taney-county-baldknobbers-shaped-ozarks-culture-from-1883-to-the-present

https://www.missourimemorial.com/roll/taneyco/1889_Branson_Funk/

https://ozarkshistory.blogspot.com/2018/06/arkansas-bald-knobbers-arise-to-occasion.html

https://greenecountymo.gov/archives/historic_cases

Galbraith’s railway mail service maps, Missouri. 1898.

Yochum Silver Dollar Credits

thelibrary.org

oldstagecoach.com

WhiteRiverValley Historical Quarterly by Lynn Morrow.


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